Getting Started

Strategic Rest Breaks

Take short, strategically spaced rest breaks to avoid eye strain and body discomforts.

For more specific recommendations on the safety and comfort of your computer environment, customers in the United States may visit the United States Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration website at: http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/ computerworkstations/

Other Things to Note

■Never turn off the power while an application is running. Doing so could cause loss of data.

■Use a virus-check program and make sure it is updated regularly.

■Never turn off the power, disconnect an external storage device or remove storage media during data read/write. Doing so can cause data loss.

■Never format storage media without checking its content. Formatting destroys all stored data.

■It is a good idea to periodically back up the internal hard disk or other main storage device to external media. General storage media is not durable or stable over long periods of time and under certain conditions may result in data loss.

■Before you install a device or application, save any data in memory to the hard disk drive or other storage media. Failure to do so may result in the loss of data.

Operating the computer in Tablet mode

TOSHIBA PORTÉGÉ M400 computer can be used in two ways; ordinary laptop PC and Tablet PC. You can use the computer as Tablet PC that is operated with attached Tablet PC Pen by turning LCD display panel in 180 degrees and closing it. This manual calls the use as an ordinary laptop PC as Laptop mode, and the use as Tablet PC as Tablet mode. Refer to Changing to the Tablet mode section in Chapter 4, Operating Basics for the changing of the mode.

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